Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 15 August 2016 08:52:15 didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 15/08/2016 à 00:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > Although Canon LiDE 220
>
> [...]
>
> > lisi@Eros:~$ lsusb | grep Canon
> > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a9:190f Canon, Inc.
> > lisi@Eros:~$ grep 190f /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf
> >
> > Having little faith, I cat-ed /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf, and the 220
> > driver was indeed not there.
>
> [...]
>
> I verified: though the Canon LiDE 220 scanner is not listed in
> /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf of libsane-common 1.0.24-8+deb8u1 (jessie), it
> is in version 1.0.25-2 (stretch) of this package:
>
> # Canon LiDE 220
> usb 0x04a9 0x190f

Thanks, didier.  That is nice to know.

So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in sorting 
that out.  But are you suggesting that I would do better to backport from 
Stretch?  I had decided that the tar ball would be simpler and more sure.  
But perhaps now is the time to learn to backport!!

Lisi